With profound economic uncertainty lingering at home and the clouds of fascism building abroad, Americans were in desperate need of an escape in the 1930s. So they flooded into movie houses on a daily ...

In a kitschy clash of chisel-cut gangsters, half-naked women and radioactive beasts from beyond, Peter Haining’s The Classic Era of American Pulp Magazines offers a polemical history of the scandalous ...

What it’s about: In the first half of the 20th century, fiction magazines were popular, and were typically printed on cheap paper made from wood pulp (as opposed to the glossy, high-quality paper used ...

Download MP3 audio of the author reading this story here, or sign up for Slate’s free daily podcast on iTunes. About the only demand pulp placed on its writers was to keep the reader’s attention. Thus ...

Those of us born after, say, 1950, probably aren’t terribly familiar with pulp magazines. But most anybody reading one today might get a jolt of déjà vu nonetheless. From the 1920s through the ’40s, ...

Daisy Bacon with her magazines in the early 1940s. (Photo courtesy of Laurie Powers) A former Port Washington resident, Daisy Bacon is known as one of the highest-paid editors in New York City during ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. A new exhibition of Künstler’s pulp magazine and book ...

The debut issue of historic long-running pulp magazine The Shadow (April, 1931) in FN- condition has just sold for $156,000 at Heritage Auctions, a record price for the issue in any grade. The ...

Pulp historian Jess Nevins, author of Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana, takes you deep into the weird history of the scifi pulps, 1900-1950. Get ready for amazing science and astounding adventure!